Film Studies on tile: Fritz Lang's Metropolis

Isn't she lovely, film historians? One 8" x 10" glossy ceramic tile of this vintage futurist image inspired by Fritz Lang's Metropolis. Thirty pfennigs translates into $25.00 at Magpie. The tile is lavishly backed with cork and has a tab hanger. One available, more possible. And wait until you see our Othello. We dig deep to find you rare public domain images and spare no pains to make them into beautiful colorfast art tiles.

new sparklies in the store

We received our first batch of glass bud vases made by Deb Florian of Recreations by Deb (Buffalo, NY). This blue dragonfly is just one of the many themes of adornment Deb offers. There's the rubber duckie bud vase, a perfectly funky Easter gift or spring fetish, a black wooden bird vase, and silver hearts and crosses. These bud vases have a little sucker attached, allowing you to stick them on your bathroom mirror or a window (to catch the sun). Magpie also carries larger colored glass hanging vases, and inspiration vases, by Deb Florian. Check out Deb's web site at www.recreationsbydeb.com and then come pick out your own at Magpie Gallery Shop. You can't go wrong with these and you can get them in between classes.

Dear valuable creatures

We visited the lovely U and G, and their ba-aad black cat, to view some of the jewelry that will soon be available in Magpie. Lapis lazuli, picture jasper, freshwater pearls, jade, carnelian, pyrite, diamond, gold, silver; earrings, necklaces, bracelets, rings. I can't tell the full story (nor the full credentials of U and G) until the reveal is imminent, which should be soon. Meanwhile, Magpie is already full of lapidary and lustrous delights, so come by or "Come Buy" as the goblins sing in Christina Rossetti's poem, "Goblin Market." We want to see you walk in and hear you say:

This room is full of jewels as a mine,--
Dear valuable creatures, how ye shine!
Sometime to-day I must contrive a minute,
If Mercury propitiously incline,
To examine his scutoire, and see what's in it,
For of superfluous diamonds I as well may thin it.

Yes, if you come in quoting this joking piece of Keats, and get all six lines right, free 2" ceramic magnet?

Yesterday, during the sad quiet of Cornell's Spring Break, we had a Welcome Day open house at Magpie. Only after did it occur to me that we'd in fact thrown a decent party--all thanks to the friends and artists who stopped by and hung out. Despite the prevalence of magpies, no decorations were stolen, only sold: ach, it happens. In the photo, l. to r., Frank Muller, Ursula Richards, Jean Callahan. In the background, off in their own worlds, Proust's Odette de Crecy recreated in paint by the amazing David Richardson of Laguna Beach and imprinted on tile, and a tile mural of Tamara de Lempicka's art deco classic Printemps. Spring!